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  1. brech of contract surly on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    so why are not the fired exec's funding a breach of contract suit against the company - to frack up the merger - this is just the same as nortel making a subsidary bankrupt and all the employees (apart from the senior ones employed by the parent) didn't get statutory redundancy payments.

    And id would also see I there are any discrepancies in age sex race to do them under those laws.

  2. Re:Uhh.. on EU Ministers Seek To Ban Creation of Hacking Tools · · Score: 1

    so we are going to have the crime of carying wireshark while black then :-)

  3. Re:Errrr... on EU Ministers Seek To Ban Creation of Hacking Tools · · Score: 1

    yes my boss could read the hex code of an X.400 mail exchange session and point out the bug in Sprints implementation - I was a beginner and had to use a decoder that dumped it to ASN.1

  4. Re:kids section of library == lame on Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? · · Score: 1

    and of course bright kids will have out grown the kids section at 11/12 or so

  5. well every nutter on Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? · · Score: 1

    and pressure group with an axe to grind would be setting their lawyers on Google for including harry potter or what ever.

  6. Re:This is an extremely important accomplishment. on IBM Builds First Graphene Integrated Circuit · · Score: 1

    yep I have have been considering writing some Map Reduce programs in FORTRAN and as tryione points out FORTRAN still used in full on technical programming where you want to solve a problem and not reinventing the wheels C doesn't have. FORTRAN also has decades of work going into compiler development including the specialized parallel and CUDA aware variants.

  7. Re:bullshit. on Mexican Cartels Build Mad Max Narco Tanks · · Score: 1

    well an Ac130 is very accuarate the predecsors where taking out trucks with single 105 rounds back in the 60's

  8. Re:bullshit. on Mexican Cartels Build Mad Max Narco Tanks · · Score: 1

    nope an APC is normally armored against for small arms - they are not ment to actually fight in the front line.

  9. Re:bullshit. on Mexican Cartels Build Mad Max Narco Tanks · · Score: 1

    so use an Ac 130 and drop a 105mm round on it

  10. Re:bullshit. on Mexican Cartels Build Mad Max Narco Tanks · · Score: 1

    Quite the narcos arn't going to have access to decent Armour plate ie Rolled homogeneous Armour - they even haven't added diy spaced Armour like the Iraqis did to their tanks.

    I suspect that any decent man portable AT weapon (hell ww2 era kit would do it) will blow through that and I dought that they have wet ammo / fuel storage so its going to brew up quite easily.

  11. Re:None of them are geeks on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    actually the 8th OSI layer and 5th TCP/IP is of course politics (try being third line support for OSI based systems for the uk and you will understand why I say this)

    and real geeks use OSC open sound control - of course really old school ones prefer pipe organs.

  12. Re:MapReduce vs Hadoop on Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology · · Score: 1

    quite and lets be honest here googles proprietary implementation probably has a lot more developer time than hadoop look how far behind mysql legged oracle and DB2 in features.

    And I have seen internally a next gen HPCC that out performs hadoop by 4X - and I suspect Google's internal systems are as good if not better.

  13. Re:None of them are geeks on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of when I was working on campus at CIT for BHRA we had some very long rs232 runs which ran underneath a metal roof. Several times we had nearby lightning strikes take out our vt100's - eventually we brought the full DEC VT100 manual and one of our electronic shops changed the blown components.

  14. Re:Where's the DOJ on Could Apple Kill Off Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    much more so in fact

  15. Protools runs on pc's now on Could Apple Kill Off Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    Well i remember an article in Sound on Sound (the recording industry bible) about how high end studios (Abbey Road, Air one etc) where getting worried that apple would screw them over and abandon the high end and leave them with a load of obselete gear - which I suspect is why protools has now done a port for PC's

  16. Re:Maybe? But not because Larry Sanger says so. on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    Ah the great Author fallacy (tell me which is the latest contender for the GAN?) - as some one commented its eng lit grads with thirds bashing the Lord of the Rings - because Tolkien pointed out the error in there argument in a tutorial before the war

    It is not so long ago when you referred to the "modern writers" in a literary sense you meant Shakespeare. Real authors where Thucydides, Plato and so on - and those ghastly modern "novelists" simply beyond the pale my dear - total penny dreadful trash.

  17. Re:None of them are geeks on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    hey us ex OSI specialists have to take our jokes where we can (well theres always TCP/IP and Google's attempts and standard writing ) And I liked the quote that "real network professionals when presented with MIDI either giggle slightly hysterically or feel sick".

    Though for its intended job it actually works rather well - current loop interfaces being much better in the electrically noisy area that is a stage/pc set up.

  18. Re:None of them are geeks on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    only the Moon Lander ones are that old skool

  19. Re:Lol on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 2

    try and get a job at Google with out a degree then

  20. Re:None of them are geeks on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    yep need a proper geek test like

    which end of the soldering iron gets hot
    what is the eighth layer of OSI and the 5th layer of TCP/IP
    what layer Does MIDI fit into in the OSI stack (and no its not what CISCO tells you)
    which Computer game has "two chease burgers and a big mac to go" as an easter egg
    bonus point what hardware did it run on
    extra bonus point did you succeed in the game

    :-)

  21. sound slike on Chinese Paper Warns Google May Pay Price For Hacking Claims · · Score: 1

    Sep Blatters style has fans in china too.

  22. Re:so just how many on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    only the insane designs like the RBK ones at Chernobyl (with no containment vessel) - I cant see German engineers falling down that much.

  23. Re:so just how many on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    quite some of the people posting in this discussion have ZERO engineering knowledge - a quick google of my name would show that I used to you know work in the world no1 center for fluid engineering in the math and nuke engineering dept.

    So Mr know nothing that marked my comment as troll "Fuck you very much" - now get back to MacDonalds :-)

  24. Re:Law is dumb on BBC Site Uses Cookies To Inform Visitors of Anti-Cookie Law · · Score: 1

    they plug the dam things hard enough in supermarkets - and another similar case newpapers break down their subscribes by analysing where they live and use that to monetize adverts and also sell targeted inserts.

  25. Re:Serious question; on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    they will just buy natural gas from that nice Mr Putin - I am sure they can out bid the former warsaw pact counties but hey who cares if a few Slavs freeze to death in the winter